The 1950 Lancia Aurelia had a transaxle too, which was one reason why it had quite the reputation for good handling in its day.

High five

AMC? What a cop-out!

These are the original Ђалопники (jalopniki). There will never be anyone more jalop.

Nice Strich-Acht. Needs a taxi sign, though.

*sigh* Imagine that: the most common family car is a light, nimble, oversteery RWD hoonbox with a manny tranny, a parpy engine and no BS.

🎵I was born in the valley of bricks🎶

Sorry, didn’t mean to bust your balls- I’m just a bit flabbergasted that something so typically not Dutch is called Dutch.

Looks like she’s meant to be standing up inside the convertible version, like these two:

What is Dutch about that thing?

Gojira-san?

It’s a licensing age thing: you can drive the almost three wheeler at 16, but a proper car only at 18. Here’s the gory detail with more narrow track action.

Even if you don’t hang out at your local parking enforcement officer bars (my local one is called Mead or Mates)

The world doesn’t insist. Only the US (and Liberia and Myanmar) does.

I wish there was a plot of median US income v. median Big Three car price, but if it exists, I haven’t found it.

MZ, CZ, Ural, Junak, Pannonia and Dnepr where all available(ish) before the wall came down.

Even behind the iron curtain they were still a breed apart. I knew an East German mechanic who, years after the fall of the Wall, still rated the ‘60s Jawa he rode as a young man as the best machine he ever had.

Not everyone needs a body-on-frame truck built to tow a yacht.

Amen

The Clarity is certainly a whole lot more DS than the sad chromed-up crossovers PSA is trying to sell us as “DS” 😔